First Grow with 300W Advanced Platinum LED Grow Light

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Edge7

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Day 36 Flower, hope this nute burn doesn't spoil the buds. Lowered my ppm from 800 to 600. It's always the lag effects of feeding that gets me in trouble, when it drifts up a few days after feeding. I succumb to trying to feed (too much) during flowering.















 
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infdjedi

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Read the whole thread and you're learning a lot. The only thing I don't understand is you keep trying to push your PPM's higher and higher and your plant's dont like it. You've literally done the same thing three times in the thread. I would flush your res and plants w/ plain water ph 5.8. Then reload with 500PPM for a week at least. Think of it this way.. it's better to see evidence of not enough nutes than too many nute? Nice job though, I think your next grow will blow your mind.
 
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kinddiesel

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nice cloner . looks like one I built. I also bought a led same watts as your as soon as it arrives im putting 16 inch PLant directly into flower . ill post my results with you . never used led hps I would pull average 3 ounces . very excited to see the led results
 
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Edge7

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infdjedi said:
Read the whole thread and you're learning a lot. The only thing I don't understand is you keep trying to push your PPM's higher and higher and your plant's dont like it. You've literally done the same thing three times in the thread. I would flush your res and plants w/ plain water ph 5.8. Then reload with 500PPM for a week at least. Think of it this way.. it's better to see evidence of not enough nutes than too many nute? Nice job though, I think your next grow will blow your mind.
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You are absolutely right! Looking at my notes and reading back on my post #150 Day 14 of Flowering the ladies were stabilizing and doing well, new growth was green and very even with ppm at 775. I hadn't fed any Dyna-Gro Bloom since Day 10. On Day 17 of flowering I add 1 ml (18 drops) of Botnicare Cal-Mag to my 10 gal reservoir as suggested by someone and in the days following, I was experiencing nute burn. I've keep the pH around 5.7 and haven't fed since Day 19, The ppm has declined from 800 to 600 ppm. New growth is green but the old curled leave look ugly for sure. I'm learning a lot in my first grow. I think that for my system and the AN Sensi A+B I'm feeding with, I should keep the PPM under 500 in vegging stage. In flowering with Dyna-Grow Bloom I should keep the ppm under 700. I think I have been certainly biased by my reading that most people were advocating a 900-1200 ppm for vegging and 1200-1500 ppm for flowering. It has taking be quite some time to cast off this notion and erred on the side of overfeeding leading to nute burn. The other thing is when you inch up the feeding level, there is a lag time for the ill effects to show and when it does show in nute burn, the only solution is to flush the system. I also erred in choosing to substantially dilute the reservoir 40% rather than evacuate and flush the system. Yeah, I'm learning tons by doing what I could never learn by reading. Hopefully my next grow will be more on target. I think it's a beginners quandary that one is always itching to feed to grow robust ladies with big buds...to a fault!
 
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Edge7

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kinddiesel said:
nice cloner . looks like one I built. I also bought a led same watts as your as soon as it arrives im putting 16 inch PLant directly into flower . ill post my results with you . never used led hps I would pull average 3 ounces . very excited to see the led results
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Sure, keep me up on your progress, I would like to follow your grow. Good luck.
 
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UVRay

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I know what you mean about "wanting" to over nute them. You just gotta learn more isn't always better but it's a lesson one must learn. I think you'd be OK just running sensi bloom a & b. The AN line is potent stuff and I'd be very leary of adding bloom enhancers, etc. especially non AN brand nutes. Flowering time is when most problems seem to pop up, you have a sweet veg cycle and hopes are high then you drop your nutes and setup bloom and whaammm problems start. It's not a bad idea to ease in to flowering after flushing. Start with minimal bloom nutes and gently increase as the buds start to form. Hope your harvest is safe brother!
 
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lmoore2680

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Looks like at least a few weeks your leaves are still green have u checked your trichs
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Scotch089

Scotch089

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they sell ones that mount on iphones too, just in case... Amazon has quite a few kinds.

I cant tell to well from the distance but watch your pistils, when they recede, and checking your trichs to where you want. (TRICHS are what we are worried about) Most breeders I have ran under "rate" flower times, use it as when to start keeping an eye out.
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Leaves fading is not always a sign of ripeness in hydro, you can keep them green the whole life cycle (w/out killing taste if you're moderate)- but that is preference.

Great job seeing it through Edge, the next run will be better.
 
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Edge7

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Thanks for your input guys. Yeah, I'm running 450 ppm which works without burn on newer growth. I have learned a lot on this 1st run. I have another batch that has been vegging for 2 1/2 months from clones that is chomping at the bit to get on to flowering. For this next batch I'm going to keep the nutes under 500 ppm for vegging and 700 ppm for flowering. Those levels seems to work well. I've sampled some immature bud 2 weeks ago and it was very strong so I'm looking forward to the harvest and initiating my 2nd grow. Gonna order a micro loupe now on Amazon.
 
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Edge7

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Day 59 Flower. nutes running at 500 ppm. Trichromes clear so many a week or two to go?





Her is my small clone tent which I flipped to 12/12 8 days ago Look to swap them into the larger flower tent soon:

 
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Edge7

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I have aurora, northern lights and white widow in there and they mature at different times. Should I harvest in stages? Lop off the matured buds and allow the other buds grow to maturity?
 
lmoore2680

lmoore2680

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That's what I did chop all the tops of the first waited a week then chop the bottom

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Edge7

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I had been using Big Bud the last couple of weeks, albeit late for the cycle. Wow, those trichomes turned fast! I looked at them a few of days ago and they were clear 100%, now they were cloudy, some amber so I harvested them, 1 1/4 lbs wet from 7 plants. Busy day as I trimmed and then moved the clones into the flowering tent, started new clones.


Now onto my 2nd growth with the clones, thanks all.
 
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